Sheet-metal vessel



(No Model.)

J. STERN. SHEET METAL VESSEL.

No. 415,984. Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

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JOHN STERN, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SHEET-METAL VESSEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,984, dated November 26, 1889.

To aZZ whom it Hwy concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN STERN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal .Vessels, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in sheet-metal vessels; and the invention consists in the peculiar combinations and construction of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ordinary sheet-metal pail or can to which my metallic band is applied. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line X X in Fig. 2.

A is a sheet-metal pail.

B is a groove pressed in and around the wall of the same.

O is a metallic band, preferably made of steel, and secured in the groove B, so as to fit firmly into the can for the purpose of stiffening and strengthening the same, to prevent the elongating of the vessel or can when it is filled with heavy n1aterial-such as paint, white lead, &c.-and lifted by its bail.

It is a common difficulty with the ordinary paint cans and like metallic vessels provided with the common wire bail that when filled and lifted up by the bail the can contracts or flattens on the top unless it is especially strengthened. This contraction is caused by the weight of the material, which bends the bail and causes the two opposite sides to draw together and so elongates the vessel. This contraction necessarily causes the overflow of the material when the can is filled, and much material is wasted in this manner by the use of the ordinary tin pail when carried by its bail and filled with a heavy mixture-rsuch as white lead or paint.

In the putting up of paint in the ordinary.

tin cans, where a vessel is filled before the cover is put on, it causes a great deal of Application filed b ua y 26, 1889. Serial No. 301,216. (No model.)

trouble and loss of time to try to put the cover, which forms a regular circle, on top of the can when the latter had been drawn out of shape and made irregular by handling. My invention is designed to entirely overcome all these diffieulties, as the steel band prevents the tin can from assuming an irregular shape if carried by its bail, or if it should become slightly irregular the steel band will always draw it back to its regular form, so as to exactly fit the cover, and allowing it to be seamed to the can and without any trouble whatever. By pressing the groove into the wall of the vessel the band will become flush with the outside of the wall of the vessel, and is thereby held in place, and it also presents an even surface on the outside, so that the labels may be put on smoothly. My metallic band also forms extra facility as a bail-fastener, as by means of a slight corrugation D in the band on opposite sidesof the vessel suitable bail-ears are formed, to which the bail maybe secured by placing a hole in such ears and hooking the bails therein, or in any other suitable manner.

For the purpose of my invention it is generally sufficient to place one band around the vessel at or near the place where the bail is applied 5 but, if desired or necessary to eiii'ect the purpose of my invention, more bands may be secured in the same manner. The ends of the bands are preferably secured by a rivet E through the wall of the can, preferably at the seam, where there is 85 extra thickness to hold the rivet, and the rivet-head may be covered on the inside with a little solder, if desired or necessary, to prevent leakage.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A sheet-metal vessel or can provided with an annular groove near the top thereof and a steel band secured in said groove by means of a rivet passing through the ends of the said band and the body of the can at the seams thereof, substantially as de-' scribed.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a sheetmetal pail provided with a continuous steel 100 metal band secured in an annular groove in in presence of two witnesses, 1113s 4th day of the body of the vessel bya rivet through the January, 1889.

ends of the band, and having corrugations formed in said band on opposite sides to JOHN STERX form ears to which the wire bail is attached, WVitnesses:

substantially as described. EDW. M. BREARTY,

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, J. PAUL MAYER. 

